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You're all knowing Murphy?
"Notice that if the pipe were made of transparent stuff you could follow the data as it rolled down the pipe and see, even if the ball breaks up into bits for part of the trip, exactly where each step happens as it morphs into your answer."

This would imply that you know a couple of things:

1: You'd know what happens when reaching a certain part of the pipe, which isn't possible, because software can follow different paths (even internal in the component)to come to an answer, but you can't exactly tell which path is followed (so the ball will fragmentate into bits)

If the software (component) does follow a single path, which you can obviously tell, then the ball doesn't fragmentate into bits...

2: When a ball fragmentates into bits at a certain stage in the pipe, the answer at that point doesn't have a purposefull meaning.

Maybe it's a wrong example, but try this one (asuming you have a lot of knowledge about traffic regulations):
"I'm driving a car with 100 mph" (which isn't a crime, no location is mentioned)

"I'm driving a car in town" (this sentence gives you a location, but doesn't mention the speed)

but if you combine these two sentences, so the sentence becomes
"I'm driving a car with 100 mph in Town"

Then you know you're violating the law (speeding)
Posted by: Arnout Groen   Posted on: 12/19/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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You're all knowing Murphy?  Arnout Groen | 12/19/06
no & yes - it's a poor analogy  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 12/19/06
all knowing ball?  gmailis4me | 02/11/07
Parallelism and the DBMS  jorwell | 12/19/06
Yes - that works, but it's concurrency, not simualtenaity  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 12/19/06
Quantum Computing?  Erik Engbrecht | 12/19/06
Quantum Computing - A beautiful idea  jorwell | 12/20/06
Disasspearing comments - and agreement  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 12/20/06
Yes, but....  Erik Engbrecht | 12/19/06
the all knowing ball  gmailis4me | 02/11/07
But this problem isn't totally parallelisable  stevey_d | 12/19/06
I didn't just say that did i?  stevey_d | 12/19/06
check it out  gmailis4me | 02/11/07
Conclusion?  Ross44 | 12/19/06
patented yes, but broadcast too  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 12/20/06
Very good point  Ross44 | 12/20/06
not to mention  jorwell | 12/21/06
Look over there!  Erik Engbrecht | 12/20/06
Check out this prank site  gmailis4me | 02/11/07
all knowing ball prank  gmailis4me | 02/11/07
idk  chelseaa | 03/04/07
http://www.allknowingball.com/question.php?pageid=7  chelseaa | 03/04/07
http://www.AllKnowingBall.com/question.php?pageid=7  gmailis4me | 02/11/07

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